Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-06-10

WASHINGTON, d. c.,


cOrding to n statement made BY Post
master. General Villas to the committee
Of the Senate investigating the work
ings of the different Departments, there
are between ninety and ninety-fve
thousand persons engaged in the mail
service Of the Government. Even this
does not give the full number Of postal
employees, as quite large number OF
third and fourth-class postmasters have
assistants who are paid out of their fees
and therefore are not borne on the rolls
of the Department. Including these it
is probable that there are more than one
hundred thousand persons employed in
the postal service.
A very large number of adventurous
young people of the District of Columbia
and the adjacent counties of Maryland
and Virginia celebrated President
Cleveland's wedding anniversary on
June I'd by taking out license or their
own account. More marriage licenses
were issued here for that date than for
period of ten years, and curious fact
was that large number Of the benefici-
aries were colored people.
1t is announced that crows are max
ing their nests in the trees around the
White House, and this circumstance in
dicates to the superstitious that Presi-
dent Cleveland will not be disturbed at
the end of his present term, as it is con-
sidered great good luck to have crows
build near your house. To politicians
the event suggests that the President is
laying in a new stock of crow for the
consumption of his opponents, and some
of them at present are experiencing a
return of nausea.
The depressing effect upon the bust
ness interests of the District of Columbia
which was confidently predicted as in
evitable from change of Administra-
ton still fails 10 materialize. The official
report of the Inspector of Public Build
iLgs shows 23l new dwelling houses
erected in Washington City during the
month of May, against 102 in the CORE
spending month of the previous year.
Thus one by one the evils that were pre-
dicted for the country from the election
of Democratic President are being
knocked in the head.
Shortly after the adjournment of Con-
gress in March Senator John Sherman
went to Nashville and made a bid for
Southern votes to help elect him Presi-
dent. In his speech there he said that
he did not come to reproach any man
for the part he took in the fight or to
revive in the heart of any one the tri-
umph of victory or the pangs Of defeat.
Last week the same Senator Sherman
made speech in Illinois in which he
abused the South for every sin in the
decalogue, and poured forth a long
string of reproaches against every man
who took part in that fight and who has
since been appointed to office by DEM
ocratic administration. He seems to
forget that Grant appointed Mosby, one
of the hardest fighters in the Confeder-
acy, to an important position in the
diplomatic service. 1t was Grant who
first placed rebel in the Cabinet, and it
was Grant and the Republican Presi-
dents who followed him that appointed
rebels on the bench as judges of United
States courts in the South until to-day
the majority Of them are e1-rebel SOL
diers. The moral of all this is that
John Sherman has given up the idea of
getting votes in the South and now tries
to see if he can't get enough in the
North to secure the nomination by abus-
ing the South, but he will fail, for the
truth is that he cannot get the solid vote
Of his own State in the convention,
fact which has been demonstrated sew
eral times.
The President last week accepted an
invitation to visit st. Louis during the
meeting of the Grand Army of the Re-
public in that city. Some of the Grand
Army men are raising row about it,
claiming that the invitation is only a
scheme to help Mr.. Cleveland get re.
nomination. OF course 10 one cares
what few cranks in the organization
say, but it appears to be very migrate
full thing for Grand Army men to kick
over, as this administration has been
keeping very large number of them in
office knowing they are ardent Repub.i-
cans. Does it pay to try Cancellation
with your avowed enemies is getting to
be a leading question. Because man
was in the army appears to me to be a
very poor reason why he should be kept
in office by an administration which he
is constantly damning.
The public debt statement issued on
the LIST of June shows that the reduction
of the United States debt during the
month Of May was ss,SSS, 997.65. The
total amount of cash in the Treasury is
now $466, 269, 526.05, quite a comfortable
little pile.
Mr.. w. w. Corcoran, he aged mil
lionaire philanthropist, was suddenly
stricken with paralysis Of the left arm
and leg on Tuesday while at dinner.
Doctors were at once summoned, and
while there are not strong hopes of his
recovery, as Mr.. Corcoran is nearly
eighty-nine years of age, his physicians
seem to think that he will get well.
Among the many prominent charities
of Mr.. Corcoran may be mentioned the
Louise Home for aged women, named
after his wife, which has one of the
most beautiful buildings and grounds in